Re: [Dx4win] Printers

2009-11-17 Thread John Shaw
I print QSO information directly on pre printed QSL cards using a HP Photosmart C7100. It has a small tray especially for printing photos. I can load 20 cards a time in there. I print directly from DX4WIN, it took a bit of mucking around as the card size is not supported so I just use the

[Dx4win] ADIF export to Club Log

2009-11-16 Thread John Shaw
Hi all, Can anyone suggest a work around that will get DX4WIN to export LoTW cfm's in a ADIF. Currently it would seem that it only exports cfm's for cards. This has come up with exporting logs to Club Log. At present the only way to apply LoTW cfm to CL statistics is to upload lotwreport.adi

Re: [Dx4win] ADIF export to Club Log

2009-11-16 Thread John Shaw
2009 8:59 a.m. To: John Shaw Cc: dx4win@mailman.qth.net; g3...@shacklog.co.uk Subject: Re: [Dx4win] ADIF export to Club Log On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:00 PM, John Shaw jns...@internet.co.nz wrote: Can anyone suggest a work around that will get DX4WIN to export LoTW cfm's in a ADIF.  Currently

Re: [Dx4win] ADIF export to Club Log

2009-11-16 Thread John Shaw
... John Shaw wrote: Ah well Jim, Still hanging out with 7.02 here so CL may well accept those inputs from 8.0x which are not there in 7.02. Some day perhaps. 73 John ZL1BYZ -Original Message- From: jjreis...@gmail.com [mailto:jjreis...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Jim Reisert

Re: [Dx4win] ADIF export to Club Log

2009-11-16 Thread John Shaw
[mailto:ve...@videotron.ca] Sent: Tuesday, 17 November 2009 2:25 p.m. To: Jim Reisert AD1C Cc: John Shaw; dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Dx4win] ADIF export to Club Log Won't work... the demo mode won't let you export an ADIF file. Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 3:04 PM

Re: [Dx4win] A peculiar situation

2009-10-16 Thread John Shaw
Go File menu then Contest mode, and see what is in the Text to add to QSO note box -Original Message- From: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Garry Shapiro Sent: Friday, 16 October 2009 8:21 p.m. To: DX4WIN Reflector Subject: [Dx4win] A

Re: [Dx4win] A peculiar situation

2009-10-16 Thread John Shaw
Garry your right it is QSO menu, my muck up but you got there. :) 73 John ZL1BYZ. _ __ Dx4win mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post:

Re: [Dx4win] Fwd: Re: DX4WIN PSK Vista

2009-09-20 Thread John Shaw
XP does this too. I think the issue may be out board sound cards using different input output numbers. I note that MMTTY has the capability to specify different I/O numbers for the sound card. I haven't looked at what enhancements have been made in this area in V8 but it may well be an area

Re: [Dx4win] Fwd: Re: DX4WIN PSK Vista

2009-09-20 Thread John Shaw
seeing this in XP. Since we have now raised this issue, lets leave it to the experts to work it through and implement a solution. 73 John ZL1BYZ. -Original Message- From: py...@integral.com.br [mailto:py...@integral.com.br] Sent: Monday, 21 September 2009 8:27 a.m. To: John Shaw Subject

Re: [Dx4win] Dx4win - Recording Frequency

2009-09-17 Thread John Shaw
- From: jjreis...@gmail.com [mailto:jjreis...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Jim Reisert AD1C Sent: Friday, 18 September 2009 10:55 a.m. To: Larry Gauthier (K8UT) Cc: John Shaw; DX4WIN Reflector Subject: Re: Dx4win - Recording Frequency Larry, the fix you describe was included in 8.02. John can certainly

Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN ver 702.15

2009-08-22 Thread John Shaw
, Try this: http://www.dx4win.com/download.htm 73, Bob K2TK John Shaw wrote: Hi, I am in the process of migrating from one computer to another and have miss placed the original download file for version 702.15 which is the one I currently use. Anyone have a place I can download

Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN ver 702.15

2009-08-22 Thread John Shaw
I get to the download page but when I click on (dx4w702.exe) I get error 404 the page you requested could not be found. John. -Original Message- From: Akira Iizuka [mailto:ja1...@sky.sannet.ne.jp] Sent: Saturday, 22 August 2009 7:55 p.m. To: John Shaw Subject: Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN ver

Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN ver 702.15

2009-08-22 Thread John Shaw
Thanks I now have a copy. 73 John ZL1BYZ. -Original Message- From: Miroslaw Paczocha [mailto:sp5...@orange.pl] Sent: Saturday, 22 August 2009 9:49 p.m. To: 'John Shaw' Subject: ODP: [Dx4win] DX4WIN ver 702.15 -Wiadomość oryginalna- Od: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net

[Dx4win] DX4WIN ver 702.15

2009-08-21 Thread John Shaw
Hi, I am in the process of migrating from one computer to another and have miss placed the original download file for version 702.15 which is the one I currently use. Anyone have a place I can download it again as I don't want to upgrade at this stage. John ZL1BYZ.

Re: [Dx4win] Membership List

2009-08-12 Thread John Shaw
John, I'm puzzled by this behavior too and I haven't seen anything populate the members column even though I know there are calls in the spot window that are in the members list. Note I am only using it in Demo mode. John -Original Message- From: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net

Re: [Dx4win] Print bureau labels

2009-07-22 Thread John Shaw
Hi Hamad, If you want to break your QSL print job into smaller lots for safety a better way is to use the range option when you go to print. This gives you a lot more control of the size of each print job and the ability to recover with less wastage if the printer jambs or something. First

Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN freezes for a particular callsign?

2009-06-06 Thread John Shaw
Rick, When this happens do you have the QRZ database lookup running? If so try the call without the lookup (F3) and see if you get the same result. -Original Message- From: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Rick Borken Sent: Sunday, 7

Re: [Dx4win] Measuring the LoTW import process

2009-01-31 Thread John Shaw
Hi Larry, The figures I compare are the QSL number on the LoTW site and the LoTW cfms in DX4WIN, if these stay stable what more could you want. Having said that some may find a discrepancy in these totals, hopefully only small. LoTW had a problem with these people who keep uploading the same

RE: [Dx4win] Logbook window question

2008-11-26 Thread John Shaw
It sounds like the sort order of your log has inadvertently been changed to some option other than date. When in the QSO window go to the Sort menu and select Date, see if things return to normal . 73 John ZL1BYZ. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [Dx4win] How to change QSL Date field

2008-11-05 Thread John Shaw
Alain, can't comment on the phantom print date. But I have had phantom names populate the Notes for this call box. To explain, over the years of using DX4WIN here I did bring another log into mine as a group. I decided that I no longer wanted that group in my log so I removed the QSO's, several

RE: [Dx4win] Printing from the logbook

2008-10-29 Thread John Shaw
Hi Mike, I think the easiest way to do what you want is to create a filter either using F8 or making one that suits what you want to do under Filter/Selection. Then your log window will only show the items you want according to the filter and you can tell it to print all pages because that

RE: [Dx4win] DX4WIN closing unexpectedly

2008-05-03 Thread John Shaw
Doesn't miss a beat here with QRZ on the HDD 73 John ZL1BYZ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Kopp Sent: Sunday, 4 May 2008 2:25 p.m. To: Jay Hainline; Dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Dx4win] DX4WIN closing unexpectedly To satisfy my

[Dx4win] A strange Bug continues

2008-03-17 Thread John Shaw
. -Original Message- From: Dave Sharred [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 17 March 2008 11:51 a.m. To: John Shaw; dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: RE: [Dx4win] A strange Bug continues John It's curious that you mention lock up associated with running QRZ.com... I never have had lock up

[Dx4win] A strange Bug continues

2008-03-16 Thread John Shaw
Hi Ken, I have been using DX4WIN you many years and found it a very stable program. However I have had one instance of it repeatedly locking up. This was on one particular callsign, which I can't remember now but every time I typed in the call wamo DX4WIN was toast. In my case it was my QRZ

[Dx4win] CPU Usage

2008-03-07 Thread John Shaw
2008 8:08 a.m. To: John Shaw Cc: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Dx4win] CPU Usage Hello, John! There is no doubt that Winkey solves the uneven keying problems. However, I have been using the DX4WIN keyboard feature for the last ten years or so and although the keying problem was often

[Dx4win] CPU Usage

2008-03-05 Thread John Shaw
Winkey is the solution. I recently upgraded to using it here and it is great for relieving CPU usage issues. I can now continue to do other tasks on the computer while CW is being sent, CPU usage doesn't even register, no hiccups or stutters. Not that it was a big issue here, I found that

[Dx4win] Another Label Printing Question

2007-01-01 Thread John Shaw
If only a couple of QSL's to print, set the Method to something unique, perhaps Other or Direct then match that in the method to print in the print box. Works for me. 73 John ZL1BYZ. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom LeClerc W1TJL

[Dx4win] Multiple calls/logs.. stupid newbie question

2006-11-12 Thread John Shaw
No you don't run out of groups if you use the same group for the same contest each year. If you want to look at a specific year just apply a date filter for the group. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erkki Heikkinen Sent: Monday, 13

[Dx4win] Multiple calls/logs.. stupid newbie question

2006-11-12 Thread John Shaw
and exclude the OH groups. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Shaw Sent: Monday, 13 November 2006 7:23 a.m. To: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: RE: [Dx4win] Multiple calls/logs.. stupid newbie question No you don't run out of groups

[Dx4win] Where is the Tech Support?

2006-11-12 Thread John Shaw
John I think it is working ok. You are correct that the grayed boxes follow the packet spots but I think you will find that once you start to enter a call into the callsign box the next time the radio is polled the grayed entries will match the radio and remain correct until you enter the QSO and

[Dx4win] Where is the Tech Support?

2006-11-12 Thread John Shaw
John, tell us the answer to this simple test. Turn off the packet spots, now does DX4WIN follow band/mode changes on the radio correctly and how fast does it follow them? John ZL1BYZ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of n4dsp Sent: Monday, 13

[Dx4win] double import bug

2006-07-17 Thread John Shaw
I can back up Kostas that I have the same thing happen here several times. The funniest part about it all is when you re start DX4WIN you get no improper exit warning with options to save backups or anything. Just business as usual and I think from memory the import doesn't happen. John.

[Dx4win] double import bug

2006-07-13 Thread John Shaw
Yes I agree with you about this Kostas. I have reported it a couple of times but so far have been ignored or if not ignored never get a response. Maybe one day it will be fixed. John ZL1BYZ. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kostas SV1DPI

[Dx4win] ADIF Import question

2006-06-14 Thread John Shaw
Very good point Alan, and I have the SAME CALL window open all the time and use that very piece of information, often I will comment to a station when having a QSO that it is good to get there name as our other QSO's are all contest ones. Just to re iterate one point though, use the same group

[Dx4win] QRZ Error: Database not found

2006-06-13 Thread John Shaw
Jim, that is bad news you having all this trouble. It has been working here for years through several upgrades of DX4WIN, computers OS's too. The only thing I can suggest, and I am guessing here. I note that in your first message you were pointing to E:\QRZ Ham Radio so I take it that you have

[Dx4win] ADIF Import question

2006-06-13 Thread John Shaw
Scott, A better solution to putting the contest name in the notes is to import the contest log into it's own group, the group name will show up in your log window and you can use the same group year after year if you want to look at one year just make a selection using a date filter. If you

[Dx4win] QRZ Error: Database not found

2006-06-12 Thread John Shaw
Hi Jim, I may be able to help here. Change your line: Data Directory: E:\QRZ Ham Radio To Data Directory: E:\ As I understand, the directory the data is in needs to be on the root Dir and in DX4WIN you just need to point to the root Dir. I think this has frustrated many over the years.

[Dx4win] QRZ Error: Database not found

2006-06-12 Thread John Shaw
In addition to my last message I am assuming E:\ is your hard drive where you have copied the data. I cant remember if the directory name is important or not, on mine its called Callbk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Reisert AD1C Sent:

[Dx4win] 7.02 15

2006-05-19 Thread John Shaw
I am pleased to say I think Paul has cracked it with the new LoTW import routine in 7.02 build 15. Be careful with your selection of Options for Duplicate QSOs I find the last one comes up with the results I like. One little challenge and I can see the logic why Paul had done it this way, so

FW: [Dx4win] Be very carefull 7.02 13 or 7.02 14

2006-05-17 Thread John Shaw
I hope Paul doesn't mind me forwarding this. I guess he wants as solid a build as possible for Dayton. 73 John ZL1BYZ. -Original Message- From: Paul van der Eijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 18 May 2006 6:51 a.m. To: John Shaw Cc: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re

FW: [Dx4win] version 7.02 build 13

2006-05-16 Thread John Shaw
-Original Message- From: John Shaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 May 2006 6:20 p.m. To: 'Paul van der Eijk' Subject: RE: [Dx4win] version 7.02 build 13 Hi Again, Well you have me stumped this time. Yes the import works and the program doesn't fall over. BUT! If I do

[Dx4win] Be very carefull 7.02 13 or 7.02 14

2006-05-16 Thread John Shaw
Just a heads up, and I am not trying to poor cold water on Paul's efforts he has responded well when an error has been found, BUT. Be very careful when running a lotwreport.Adi download into your log. Make sure you have a safe backup so that if you don't like the results you can go back. I don't

[Dx4win] Volume control settings

2006-03-09 Thread John Shaw
that gets the job done. Thanks again. -Original Message- From: Bill Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 10 March 2006 2:40 a.m. To: John Shaw Cc: Larry Gauthier (K8UT) Subject: RE: [Dx4win] Volume control settings Hello John, I use a small freeware application called QuickMix

[Dx4win] Thanks but no success

2006-03-07 Thread John Shaw
11:00 p.m. To: John Shaw Subject: RE: [Dx4win] Thanks but no success John Said, Anyway I was getting the same error as you, couldn't figure it out till just recently I read in the help files under PTT delay A zero value indicates that PTT keying is not used. Sure enough mine was set at zero

[Dx4win] Thanks but no success

2006-03-06 Thread John Shaw
Hi Lance, No expert here and none of the other replies were to the reflector so I don't know if I am repeating something already said. I was getting the same message as you, although my setup is simpler than yours. Only using one com port no rig control and spots done by telnet.

[Dx4win] 160 contest submissions from DX4WIN

2006-02-25 Thread John Shaw
Mark, I don't think you had any reply. What I had done for a local ham friend that didn't have a contest log, was he would send me an ADIF file of his contest log from DX4WIN and I would import it into WriteLog, produce a cabrillo file and email it back to him to submit. He now has WriteLog

[Dx4win] Uploading QSO from LOTW

2006-01-27 Thread John Shaw
Don't panic John, sometimes LoTW is slloooww to process the files, so at this stage just be patient it may still happen. You can when logged in go to the Your Account menu, then Activity it will show your file uploads there, but I am not sure if they show there before they are processed or not.

[Dx4win] PSK and PTT setup

2006-01-24 Thread John Shaw
keyer that uses a usb port and virtual com ports. I'm guessing some of the issues may be overcome with these. 73 John ZL1BYZ. -Original Message- From: Roger Borowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 25 January 2006 1:29 p.m. To: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Cc: John Shaw Subject: Re

[Dx4win] ADIF import error

2006-01-21 Thread John Shaw
Is it a good/valid callsign Jeff? Maybe it has an O where it should be a zero or something. John. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Steinkamp Sent: Saturday, 21 January 2006 7:16 p.m. To: DX4WIN Mail List Subject: [Dx4win] ADIF import

[Dx4win] Incomming spots changing QSO window

2006-01-20 Thread John Shaw
that F8 doesn't function like it used to either. So it looks like some tidying up to do in DX4WIN. 73 John ZL1BYZ. -Original Message- From: Tony Lord [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 21 January 2006 2:04 a.m. To: 'Larry Gauthier (K8UT)'; 'John Shaw'; dx4win@mailman.qth.net

[Dx4win] Incomming spots changing QSO window

2006-01-20 Thread John Shaw
, if you hit him when he's not busy (rare) is fairly responsive. 73 GL, Duane On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 20:08:19 +1300 John Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Duane, Yes I had tried that before and almost thought it was it but no. It is not actually the callsign but the band

[Dx4win] Incomming spots changing QSO window

2006-01-19 Thread John Shaw
that will stop this behavior. I seem to recall when it was added due to some folks thinking it would be a good thing to have, but whatever my settings are, they don't do this. 73, Duane On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:21:36 +1300 John Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have asked this before

[Dx4win] Incomming spots changing QSO window

2006-01-18 Thread John Shaw
I have asked this before but no answers other than one other who agreed he didn't like the way this works either. Is there a way to stop incoming packet spots from changing the band and mode in the QSO window. This is a real pain, I don't have rig control so I don't know it may work better with

[Dx4win] Editing ADIF import filter

2006-01-16 Thread John Shaw
Pete, what I have done is export an ADIF file from DX4WIN and study that for what tags put what where. I guess if you were really organized you could cut paste them into a text file and have that for future reference, kind of your own systematic table, wouldn't take much to do. I just about

[Dx4win] Editing ADIF import filter

2006-01-16 Thread John Shaw
PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 17 January 2006 9:53 a.m. To: John Shaw Cc: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Editing ADIF import filter John ZL1BYZ wrote: One thing I do when importing stuff into my main log is make a copy into another directory before doing the import, so that if I don't

[Dx4win] Re: QRZ CDROM Bug

2006-01-15 Thread John Shaw
Yes Ernie has it. What he says is how I have always organized it and it works. Case of RTFM I think. 73 John ZL1BYZ. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ernie Howard Sent: Monday, 16 January 2006 10:55 a.m. To: Dick Flanagan Cc: Jack

[Dx4win] Re: QRZ CDROM Bug

2006-01-15 Thread John Shaw
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 16 January 2006 11:36 a.m. To: John Shaw Cc: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: RE: [Dx4win] Re: QRZ CDROM Bug At 02:18 PM 1/15/2006, John Shaw wrote: It has been this way for as long as I have been using DX4WIN, about 5 years. If you read the manual it says

[Dx4win] What does Winkey do?

2005-12-20 Thread John Shaw
to have merit and it does seem to be getting embedded into other interfaces and supported by other programs so it shouldn't be long before DX4WIN does too. 73 John. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Shaw Sent: Tuesday, 20 December 2005

[Dx4win] What does Winkey do?

2005-12-19 Thread John Shaw
Ok, winkey this and winkey that. Maybe someone has been slipping me thick pills again. I looked at the winkey site and they do the same yada yada yada about winkey but they don't actually say what extra functionality it gives. So what tricks does this thing do that makes it a must have item?

[Dx4win] QSO window following spots

2005-11-15 Thread John Shaw
I upgraded to 7.01 a while back and one change I have noticed is that when I hit F9 for real time entry some of the fields follow the last spot in the DX spots window. Is there a way to stop these updating unless I grab the spot? 73 John ZL1BYZ

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